The next day, Li Ziyu took her younger siblings to participate in the morning exercise, had a simple breakfast, instructed Xiaowen a few words, and walked towards Zhao Qing's house with Xiaoshan with one hundred taels of silver and one hundred taels of broken silver in her arms.

When she got home yesterday, she remembered that she seemed a little reckless. If it's just a dozen acres of wasteland, it's nothing, if you add a small river, it's really conspicuous, after all, the small river is a hundred taels of silver. But she couldn't pull the river down, after all, the wasteland was to the south of the river, and the wasteland and the river were a whole in a line, so she could only grit her teeth and buy it.

This is nothing, she still wants to build the courtyard wall in the spring of next year, and such a large-scale movement will definitely attract attention. I don't know what the consequences will bring, so I can only grit my teeth and move forward.

When I arrived at Zhao Qing's house, I saw that in addition to Zhao Qing's old couple in the house, Zhao Zhenyou accompanied a middle-aged man in his forties who was sitting on a stool on the floor of the house, chatting enthusiastically.

As soon as Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan entered the house, they first greeted everyone in the house one by one.

"Grandpa! Grandmother! Brother-in-law! ”

Zhao Qing waited for Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan to finish greeting, then pointed to the middle-aged man and said, "Xiaoyu, Xiaoshan, this is Niu Dachuan, a famous middle-aged man in our Shiyan Town." Okawa, this sister and brother are the buyers. ”

Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan called "Uncle Da Chuan".

Niu Dachuan agreed, and couldn't help but look the sister and brother up and down.

Because the cotton coat and the outer cover are ready, Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan are wearing the outer cover today. The cotton clothes are still the same as before, and they will be worn again during the Chinese New Year. Putting on a cover is also a sign of respect for people, Li Ziyu doesn't want to dress in tatters to give people a sloppy feeling.

Niu Dachuan saw the sister and brother in front of him, wearing a new blue muslin dress, looking handsome, with clear and bright eyes, and they were all good, not like country children at all. My sister's beautiful apricot eyes flashed with shrewdness from time to time, and he didn't dare to underestimate his confident appearance. The younger brother has a pair of slender Danfeng eyes, which look very charming, but he has not opened up and has a loyal face, and he is a simple child now.

Well, these two siblings will have a future in the future.

While Niu Dachuan was looking at Li Ziyu's sister and brother, Li Ziyu was also secretly looking at Niu Dachuan.

Niu Dachuan is relatively stocky, not tall, and has an honest face, Li Ziyu knows that his appearance is just Niu Dachuan's protective color to the outside world. A person who has been engaged in the purchase and sale of houses and land for a long time cannot be a simple person. After all, he has been facing all kinds of people all year round, and when he sees people, he has to talk about people, and when he sees ghosts, he has to talk about ghosts, and if his mind is really simple, he can't do this. Niu Dachuan can't say that he is inconsistent with what he seems, but at least he is a person who has everything in his chest.

Niu Dachuan and Li Ziyu looked at each other in an instant, and the two of them had a bottom of each other's impressions.

After the greetings, everyone went to the ground to measure the measurements.

Zhao Zhenyou went out and called two young men to accompany him, and Li Ziyu knew each other at a glance, and both of them had repaired a house for her family. One is Zheng Dongwang in the west of the village, nicknamed Gazi, and the other is Zhou Dazhuang.

Zhou Dazhuang held the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in both hands, and Gazi held the fork ruler with both hands.

This fork ruler, Li Ziyu saw for the first time, and it is said that it is used to measure the land. The shape of the fork ruler resembles a geometric trapezoid, consisting of three flat wooden roots. The upper roots are half of the roots on both sides, and the roots on both sides are equal. Two equal sticks are fastened to short sticks, and the distance between the two feet below is five feet, which is one step.

Li Ziyu didn't understand the ancient calculation method of measuring land, so she inquired with Zhao Zhenyou in a hurry, only to know that the calculation of one mu of land in ancient times was sixteen forks in length and one acre in width, which was really eye-opening.

The group of seven came to the vicinity of the creek and walked south along the edge of the creek.

To the south of the small river, there is a relatively flat wasteland, with low bushes growing around the wasteland, and to the east of the wasteland is the steep and towering Dalingzi Mountain. Because it was winter, the wasteland was covered with half-man-deep wild grass, swaying in the cold wind, and it looked extremely desolate.

Under the command of Zhao Zhenyou, Gazi and Zhou Dazhuang kept moving the fork ruler in the barren grass, measuring the number of acres of wasteland, and Zhao Qing and Niu Dachuan recorded various data on the side.

Because they are all wild grasses and shrubs, it is very inconvenient to measure the number of acres, and it took nearly an hour to complete the measurement.

There are a little more than sixteen and a half acres of wasteland, and Zhao cleared sixteen acres.

After measuring the wasteland, everyone went to Li Ziyu's house non-stop, and Li Ziyu also planned to buy more than two acres of hillside land here.

Everyone started to operate step by step, and the ground was measured in a while.

This hillside is two and a half acres, counting two acres. This is also how difficult it is for Zhao Qing to take care of them and understand a few orphans.

When everyone returned to Zhao Qing's house, Niu Dachuan wrote two contracts for the sale of land and small rivers, one for each of Zhao Qing and Li Ziyu. The deed stated that the ownership of the land and the river belonged to Li Zishan, and Zhao Qing, Xiaoshan and Niu Dachuan signed the deed and pressed their fingerprints, which is the so-called white deed.

The white deed is of a civil nature and is not recognized by the government. Only by replacing the white deed with a red deed can the government recognize the legitimacy of the deed and have legal efficiency.

Both contracts were handed over to Niu Dachuan, and he was responsible for going to the government to go through the relevant procedures for the red deed.

Sixteen acres of land are sixteen taels of silver per acre, Xiaohe is a lot more expensive than wasteland, it is one hundred taels, and the hillside land is also counted as one tael of silver, one acre and two acres are two taels of silver, a total of one hundred and eighteen taels of silver, Li Ziyu paid the cash on the spot.

Li Ziyu gave Niu Dachuan another ten taels of silver, excluding all the handling fees for handling the red deed, and the rest was the hard money for him.

When Niu Dachuan left, Li Ziyu gave Zhao Qing five taels of silver as the hard cost of measuring the land, which is actually the benefit fee. She also went to Aunt Yang's house last night and asked Aunt Yang about it. Aunt Yang said that it would only cost two taels of silver, and the old village chief would definitely not want it.

Today, Li Ziyu deliberately gave five taels of silver, also to get a favor. Li Ziyu knows very well that no matter which dynasty he is in, the most basic officials have great power, regardless of their small official positions. Whether the younger brothers are doing business at home or taking the imperial examination in the future, Zhao Qing cannot be offended. Of course, I heard that Zhao Qing himself is still relatively upright, and he is not greedy for money. But who is afraid of more money?

Zhao Qing took five taels of silver, left two taels, and returned the remaining three taels to Li Ziyu: "Two taels is enough, take the rest back." ”

"Grandpa!"

"Okay, it's all conventional, and I also refer to other villages. At first, I didn't want a penny, but I offended my colleagues and said that I was selling my reputation. Alas" Zhao Qing shook his head and sighed.

Seeing that what Zhao Qing said seemed to be true, and thinking about Aunt Yang's words last night, Li Ziyu didn't insist anymore.

Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan returned home, and Xiaowen and his younger siblings were sitting at the table practicing and reading.

Xiaowen looked at Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan inquiringly, Li Ziyu nodded at him, Xiaoshan stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, Xiaowen suddenly looked happy.

Xiao Wu, Xiao Hu and Xiao Lan sat upright at the table, seriously drawing big characters. Turning a blind eye to the actions of his sisters and brothers. In fact, when they started to read and practice calligraphy, Xiaohu and Xiaolan couldn't sit still, and Xiao Wu was even worse, as if there were nails on the chair. The reason why it is like this is that Li Ziyu told them that only by studying and reading seriously will they have great success in the future. Otherwise, you can only starve, be poor, and be bullied.

The three little ones remembered their sister's words, pouted their little faces every day, and wrote the homework assigned by their sister very seriously, so that they should not be bullied.

Two days later, Zhao Qing sent the changed red deed to Li Ziyu, and instructed him to go back after collecting it.

Li Ziyu looked at the contract book covered with the red seal of Fuyuan County in his hand, and it turned out that this was the red deed.

The so-called red deed is to paste the document printed by the government on the white deed, that is, the end of the deed, and finally paste the seal of the county government, that is, the seal of the riding seam, such a land deed is called the official deed, also called the red deed, which is the certificate of land ownership.

Li Ziyu carefully put the title deed into the wooden box, in ancient times, she finally had the first title deed, and she believed that there would be more title deeds and house deeds in the future.